Green Organizations

Austin Youth River Watch is a multi-year, after-school and summer program for high school students that combines peer mentoring with intensive environmental education. It's a safe place to grow and gain confidence while learning to be active stewards of our planet.

~ What do River Watchers do? ~

Our student participants, River Watchers, start out by learning the basics of water-quality monitoring. They learn from their fellow students, visiting scientists, and our staff of professional educators.

Cambridge Energy Alliance (CEA) is a City of Cambridge program that promotes energy efficiency and solar energy.

Our goal is to help residents, businesses, and institutions in Cambridge save money while also reducing Cambridge’s carbon footprint.

Toward this goal, we promote the Mass Save program, a state-wide, utility-run program that offers significant incentives for a wide range of energy upgrades. We can also connect you to financial institutions that can help you pay for energy efficient improvements to your home or business.

Food Solutions New England (FSNE) is a regional, collaborative network organized around a single goal: to transform the New England food system into a resilient driver of racial equity and food justice, health, sustainable farming and fishing, and thriving communities.

We serve as a convener, cultivator, and champion of our regional food system:

Convener
FSNE brings together individuals and organizations to strengthen our regional food system. Our annual New England Food Summits are one example of this effort.

The Wetlands Initiative is dedicated to restoring the wetland resources of the Midwest to improve water quality, increase wildlife habitat and biodiversity, and reduce flood damage.

Our vision is simple: Wetlands are more valuable wet than dry.

TWI is a leader in showing through its own restoration projects how wetlands long drained and degraded can be returned to high-quality wetland ecosystems again able to perform their natural “services,” such as cleaning water, providing habitat and sequestering carbon.

We are Before It’s Too Late (BITL), a nonprofit initiative founded by MIT graduate students to leverage arts, technology and science to ignite urgency and collaboration toward addressing climate change.

BITL is running a first-of-its-kind Climate Action Prototyping Lab to rapidly implement and test concepts that can create social change. Inspired by think tanks and innovation labs, our center is differentiated by action-oriented community programs. We strive to find the tools that deliver results and partner with organizations to scale them.

Bound by Beauty is a nonprofit organization that transforms how we interact with nature and with neighbors to create a safer, stronger, healthier, and more resilient community. And we're using butterflies as the catalyst for change, by promoting and supporting butterfly gardens.

Our programs include:
• Creating Butterfly Gardens
• Network of Neighborhood Nurturies (places where nature's gifts can be shared)
• Foster Garden Project
• Seeds2Share (helping seniors germinate gardens)

The Society of Environmental Journalists is the only North American membership association of professional journalists dedicated to more and better coverage of environment-related issues.

SEJ’s mission is to strengthen the quality, reach and viability of journalism across all media to advance public understanding of environmental issues.

Today, SEJ's membership includes more than 1,400 journalists and academics working in every type of news media in the United States, Canada, Mexico and 43 other countries.

The Denver Chapter of the Colorado Renewable Energy Society seeks to lead our city to an efficient renewable energy economy through education, policy, and economic development.

~ WHAT WE DO ~

EDUCATE with monthly programs, workshops, and forums in Denver and surrounding communities.

INFORM about local and community-driven energy issues, including climate change mitigation, through digital communications, outreach, and strategic partnerships.